Yongbeom Jun, Huisun Jung (Seungwon, Seungyun, Seungju) in Kenya
1. We pray that the COVID-19 pandemic ends quickly.
2. Lord, please help them to be patient and healthy both in their spiritual lives and daily lives at home.
3. We pray that their family, their neighboring missionaries, their supporting churches, their supporters and their families, the Kenya Church, and their co-workers will be healthy and won’t be infected by the virus.
Cloud and Lisa Poy in Lydia’s House
1. We pray for their permanent visa process. They summited all documents this week and they will wait for the permission from USCIS from now on. Lord, please help them to get the visa in Your time, and start a new process to register Lydia’s House as Non-profit Organization in the States.
2. After Lisa get a visa, she will start process for organization of missionary member care. We pray for the preparation for official Lydia’s House as NGO. They need to find out faithful support who can be board members for this ministry, to be ready for finances to begin it, and so on. Lord, you know everything that Lisa needs. Help this ministry.
3. We pray for Cloud and Lisa to continually think about the work of soul-care and live lives that practice God’s love in a wise and good way.
4. Let them live the lives of holy Christians every day, and make their daily lives sanctified through the Word and prayer.
5. For this ministry of inviting, welcoming, and restoring missionaries, more and more prayer partners and financial partners are needed. Please help Lisa find more co-workers in order to create a ministry of excellent and beautiful service. Especially, they are planning to work on remodeling for Moving Lydia’s House. Please provide finances for it.
6. Pray for Lisa’s mom and sister who are in Korea. Please keep them under God’s care and make them healthy both spiritually and physically.
Evangelical Missionary Training Center in Korea
1. We pray for the financial problems of the temporarily returning missionaries who are staying at the missionary furlough center. Please let them go back to mission fields soon so they can faithfully do their ministry again as usual after COVID-19.
2. Please make sure that the 31st missionaries’ sponsor churches are well connected, and a lot of prayer partners will be established to let them know that everything is God’s grace and plan. Please help them meet good supporters.
3. Please help them finance to purchase of a vehicle and the replacement of 10 refrigerators at the EMCT.
Jonathan-Sky Park, Michelle Lee (Yedam, Yewon) in Korea
1. Please give health and wisdom for all of the family members who are studying. Jonathan-Sky Park is studying leadership so he can be more effective while serving at the training center.
2. Please provide for their financial needs so they can serve the missionaries who are staying at the missionary training center and live fulfilling lives.
Cheonhui Lee, Hayeong Cheon (Jeongmin, Jungye) in Mongolia
1. Please help them live a life of Word, prayer, worship, and evangelism by being filled with the Holy Spirit every moment.
2. Language and culture training: Please help them to be prepared faithfully for ministry.
3. School ministry: We pray for the members of the school’s small group church.
4. The direction of ministry: Please let them hear God’s voice and move according to His direction without haste or impatience. Also, please help them to spend their homeland assignment time in Korea this year.
5. Please help them to love each other and have power spiritually, mentally, and physically.
Seongheon Lee, Wonkyung Cho (Semi, Sera) in Indonesia
1. We pray for the kindergarten, elementary school, and middle school graduates. Some children continue their studies at Kick’s school, but some others leave. As these children grow up, help them to keep the faith that they have learned well and to exert God’s influence as Christians on many people. Let them be a messenger of the Gospel wherever they go.
2. We pray for the Kalimantan Christian School to effectively fulfill its Christian education role and cultivate future spiritual leaders in Indonesia despite the coronavirus crisis.
3. Please help the families of the children in Dream Child Ministry who are struggling financially to endure this crisis and rely on God. And help them to grow in their faith.
4. This June, there are three middle school graduations, and we pray for the construction of the high school. If it is God’s will to build Kick’s High School, please pray that He will send money and people.
5. We pray for pioneering new areas for the Dream Child Ministry. In more places, more children are in need of God’s hand. We pray for missionaries to be God’s hand and mobilization of many others.
6. Semi and Sera, who were studying in the States, were banned from entering Indonesia due to visa problems because of COVID-19. So for their school breaks, they are staying in Korea. We pray for their futures. Please let Semi and Sera who dream of being missionaries know God’s will and help them do what is pleasing to God.
Sunbeon Hong, Jihye An (Yepyo, Youngpyo, Eunhye, Bora) in Papua, Indonesia
1. Thank you for making the sabbatical year in Korea and returning to Papua safely. Help the children re-adapt to the mission field well, and keep them healthy and safe from endemic diseases.
2. Please send 70 people to distribute the Bible together.
3. We pray that the Coronavirus situation has subsided so that the locals can live their free daily lives again.
4. We pray for active progress in ministry with the GIDI denomination (Sunday School classes, small group meetings, MOU agreement)
Itae Kim, Jinhee Cho in Bangladesh
- Please protect the children of God in Bangladesh.
- Please help the six young staff members to live normally even while the missionaries are in Korea for a while, and let them always be awake with the Word and prayer.
- We pray for the reconstruction of the “Go-Ppal-Bul church.” The church building is so old and small that it is difficult for all the children to sit when worshiping.
- We pray for “Anondo.” In the future, he must attend more schooling, so there are many things to prepare. However, most of all, please give the missionaries wisdom so that they can train him as a good disciple of Jesus.
- A few days ago, a list of missionaries was blacklisted at an airport in Bangladesh, and several missionaries were deported. The schedule for returning to the mission field in December has been delayed a little, but Lord, please let them experience God’s good help in the process of preparing to reenter the field.
Susan Truitt in OMS Korea
1. I continue to teach several English classes at Seoul Theological University, all remotely this semester. Sometimes I upload a lecture video for them to watch, and sometimes we meet live on Zoom. We had been expecting to hold the final exams in person, but now with a resurgence of COVID cases, the final exams will also be online. Please pray for all the students to have a good experience of learning and growing in Christ, even remotely, in the remaining 3 weeks of the semester.
2. I had a large polyp removed from my colon on November 12. Praise the Lord that it was non-cancerous, and there were no complications.
3. OMS Korea is in the process of transitioning from a missionary-receiving field to be able to recruit, train, and send missionaries from Korea around the world. We have hit some difficult obstacles in this process. Praise the Lord for His guidance so far, and pray for His continued direction through the sometimes complicated process of making this transition. We look forward to seeing many Korean OMS missionaries serving around the world in the future.
4. Pray for God’s direction in plans for ministry next year, including our Adventures in English camps in the summer. We are tentatively planning to hold these camps in July and August to provide training for Korean missionary candidates, young people, and youth from North Korea and China. But plans could change depending on the COVID situation. Pray for God’s direction in providing volunteers to help with the English camps and ways for it to happen in 2021 according to His will.
5. I am tentatively planning to visit Waco, Texas, and Tucson, Arizona, from December 19 to January 16. Depending on the COVID situation, plans could change. Pray for God’s direction in all travel plans, and for a place for me to stay in Waco after Christmas.
6. The church I attend, Peace Community Church, has continued to meet in person whenever possible during this pandemic, and at other times has stayed in touch online. Praise the Lord for His work in the lives of defectors from North Korea and others who are a part of this faith community. Last Sunday we were able to meet, and spend a little time decorating for Christmas after the worship service.
Hannah Kappler in OMS Korea
1. Praise the Lord; we can hold the English intensive in person this year! Even with the modifications and precautions for COVID, it is a blessing to work with the missionary candidates as they prepare for their ministry worldwide.
2. Pray for the transition process for me and the many pieces that are in motion.
Samuel and Elaine (Daniel, Gideon) in Myanmar
Please pray that the missionaries will have a deep fellowship with our Lord in the morning and the evenings.
- Please pray that Daniel and Gideon who are currently restricted from leaving the house will be able to adapt to this new lifestyle without any problems.
- Please continue to keep the two missionary families and Samuel’s family in our prayers. Pray that they will center their lives on Christ our Lord more, continue to meditate on the Word, and live victoriously by faith.
- We pray for Elaine and Samuel to continue to improve their language skills there in Myanmar through their continued studies.
